Miko Devilman Crybaby Part 2

Here are the remainder shots of Miko, not including anything depressing. I'll do pre-transformation Miko next.

Miko (actually BEST MIKI) from Devilman Crybaby

Nobody sent me pictures of Miko all day, because it's hard to capture from Netflix.

I have decided to fix this, starting with this set from today

Holy Corpse Rising Looks Fun

Seven Seas Entertainment announced this title "Holy Corpse Rising" over a year ago, and the combination of its salacious cover art and vaguely horror-sounding title kept me wondering what exactly the series would be about. Online synopses say it's about a boy whose family was murdered by witches who must marry other witches to fight yet even more witches in 15th century Rome. Unlike most manga these days, there were no scans online to scope out, so I went to the raws to get an idea of what the series was like.

It involves a witch that must drink the boy's tears to become a ridiculous costumed superhero. The whole thing comes off as a demented cross between Prison School and Berserk, and I can't help but be interested in seeing if it actually is a decent series when I'm finally able to read the dialog.

It looks like gorgeous trash.

This is also a good chance to try out an affiliate link, so if you heard about the manga from me, please buy from the link below:


Holy Corpse Rising Manga Volume 1 - $9.74
from: Right Stuf, Inc.

Persona and Suikoden pics

Sales and Fundraiser

I'm selling some things of mine to cover medical bills. I also have put up a GoFundMe in case I'm not selling anything of interest and you have $5 you can spare. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Selling Saturn games for bills Fighters Megamix $50, Enemy Zero $100.

Flowers of Evil Manga English Complete Set $80

Mako Nendoroid $80

Mikasa Good Smile Non-special edition $90

Nami Strong World End edition $90

Nami Strong World Ed $100

Nico Robin Strong World $120

Kotobukiya Auron $50

GoFundMe link is https://www.gofundme.com/2j3mf6p8 

To be continued with more stuff...

THE SHOUNEN-AI YOU’VE NEVER HEARD ABOUT – PATALLIRO

Patalliro was written by Mineo Maya in 1979 and already stands out by having a male author (there are few men who venture into shounen-ai without feminine sounding pennames) it’s an extremely long running manga, still ongoing today with a whopping 91 volumes to its name and features everything from comedic slapstick, blushing boy touch romance to full blown mpreg.

The anime was released in 1982 with 49 episodes and it’s one of those series I wish had more of a following because it’s so wonderful to look at, genuinely funny and weird, and totally cultural in a way not a lot of modern anime tend to emulate these days. There are glorious bishounen with long locks (the likes Eroica would swoon over), tawdry stories of the blue bloods that populate the boy King Patalliro’s world, humorous spy shit, serious romances and glorious shoujo sparkles and flowers in full bloom. It doesn’t delve too deeply into the enormous material presented by the manga but it does give you a pretty good glimpse into the main characters  personalities.

Bancoran: The ‘Bishounen Killer’ Handsome Agent

Patalliro: The Boy King

Bancoran is probably what I would consider the main character for most of the anime and his job is to protect Patalliro, a sudden child monarch. Unfortunately, Patalliro is more interested in being a kid and causing a raucous than actually ruling anything or taking the threats on his life seriously, much to Bancoran’s chagrin. But Bancoran has his own problems to deal with; namely a great many romances with swooning bishounen when they aren’t busily trying to kill him off to get at Patalliro.

Bancoran has at least somewhat settled down with Maraich by the time the StarDust Keikaku movie came out and later they even (miraculously, with yaoi logic) have a baby in the manga. That doesn’t stop Bancoran from constantly cheating on Maraich who shrews it up with the best of them by throwing knives at his unworthy  ‘husband’ hearkening back to their early relationship as target and assassin.

 

 It’s worth mentioning that Toei did the animation and the backgrounds and detail are downright luscious even if sometimes the animation comes off as stilted or a bit jittery, it is after all, over twenty years old so the fact it looks this good is something to revel in.

The line work and detail is an imitation of the manga which is also exceptionally beautiful and strangely replete with patterns and a strong design sensibility (I wouldn’t be surprised to hear Mr. Mineo Maya was in fashion design before becoming a manga-ka) the careful attention to strange architecture that seems a contusion of Japanese and European design sensibility is just plain cool to look at.

Shamefully this series isn’t available anywhere and there’s not that much fansubbed. If you can find it, the full Patalliro movie Stardust Keikaku is on the tubes along with some subbed episodes. I would love to see this cleaned up and pristine, especially since the manga is popular enough to keep going for 91 volumes in Japan but I’m not holding my breath. Any way you can see this show will be a treat, it’s quirky humour and beautiful eighties animation is really something to look out for.

Check it out before the bishounen killer catches another victim~ Ohohoho~